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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Alexandria City Council returns Tuesday for a legislative meeting that touches several threads The Alexandria Brief has tracked through the spring, including the renegotiated agreement governing police in city schools, the GO Alex transportation strategy, and the long-running Duke Street planning effort.
The most closely watched item is likely the School Resource Officer Memorandum of Understanding between Alexandria City Public Schools and the Alexandria Police Department, which comes to council as an oral report. The agreement, which sets the rules for officers stationed at the city's middle schools and Alexandria City High School, has been renegotiated for nearly a year. The School Board held a public hearing on the draft in April after twice extending the prior 2023 agreement, which is set to expire June 30. The MOU covers procedures for information sharing, investigations, questioning of students, searches, and arrests, and requires review every two years.
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Council will also vote on the GO Alex Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2027 through 2031, the city's five-year commuter assistance blueprint. The Transportation Commission endorsed the plan in April, and staff signaled then that it would come to the council in May. Required by the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation as a condition of grant funding, the plan maintains existing programs while floating new ideas, including an e-bike incentive program, a youth transportation program, an e-bike lending library, and a water taxi feasibility study.
On the consent docket, council will consider up to $550,000 in additional city funding to renovate and preserve 1022 Pendleton Street as a rooming house. The historic Parker-Gray property — a former Green Book lodging that sheltered Black travelers during the Jim Crow era — first received city support in 2023, when council approved roughly $1.95 million in American Rescue Plan and city funds. Residents were relocated during construction and are slated to return once work is complete.
A second consent item asks the council to approve a $270,000 grant application to the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation's Love Your Block program. Unlike the program's typical neighborhood-cleanup focus, Alexandria's bid would fund the Health Department's 2025-2030 Community Health Improvement Plan, which targets two areas flagged in the city's latest health assessment: Arlandria and Landmark/Van Dorn. The award would put $70,000 toward resident-led mini-grants and $200,000 toward hiring up to two Love Your Block fellows, one for each neighborhood, with no required city match. Applications are due June 1.
Council will receive a separate update on the Duke Street Land Use Plan, the effort to reshape the corridor connecting Old Town to the West End. Since launching in June 2025, the process has drawn more than 3,500 participants across 45-plus pop-up events, five community meetings, four workshops, and an open house. Staff have shared a draft framework — four maps covering land use, building heights, open space, and mobility — and are in talks with the owners of large market-affordable properties, including Foxchase and the Mason at Van Dorn, to limit displacement. Draft recommendations are expected in July and a full draft plan for public comment in September, with public hearings to follow.
The agenda also includes proclamations recognizing June as D-Day commemoration month marking the invasion's 82nd anniversary, May as Sex Education Month, and May as Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, along with consideration of the council's summer and fall meeting schedule.
See the full docket and supporting documents here.
The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the City Council Chamber at the Del Pepper Community Resource Center, 4850 Mark Center Drive. It will be carried on government channel 70, streamed on the city website and accessible via Zoom (Webinar ID: 944 1313 7507; passcode: 579968). Residents may dial in at 301-715-8592 or submit written comment to CouncilComment@alexandriava.gov.
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